What's new

Every update to RideCoach, and what it means when you're out riding. Updates arrive through the App Store; turn on automatic updates to get them as soon as they're out.

Version 1.0.3 Latest

Race your friends

  • Ride with a friend, even when you're out alone. Share a finished ride and a friend can race your pace on the same route, with the coach calling out the gap by name.
  • Race yourself. Take on any of your past rides, including old Garmin or GPX rides from before you had RideCoach.
  • Private by design. A shared ride carries your pace and nothing else: no map, no location.
  • Your ride on the Lock Screen. Distance, the next climb, how you're doing and your heart rate, without unlocking your phone.
  • Smoother importing, and if the end-of-ride debrief can't be written, the app now tells you why.
Version 1.0.2

Easier to read, nicer to listen to

  • Bigger text when you want it. RideCoach now follows your iPhone's Text Size setting, so everything can be as large as you need for a quick glance.
  • Look back at how the ride went. Every saved ride now shows the route's hills with how far you got, and how long you spent in each heart-rate zone.
  • The premium voice sees you home. If you use the premium voice, it now reads your end-of-ride summary and your coach's debrief too.
  • One voice at a time. The coach no longer talks over itself when lots happens at once.
  • Tell the coach about your bike. Describe what you're riding and the coach may mention it along the way.
Version 1.0.1

More encouragement, less nagging

  • Hype mode. A new chattiness setting for the rides you'd rather not be doing: it cheers every five kilometres, keeps you company all the way round, and never tells you how far behind you are.
  • Help up the hills. The coach stays with you on every climb, right through to "nearly there, keep going".
  • Detours without the fuss. Roadworks or a wrong turn? The coach mentions it once, keeps you company, and picks the route back up when you rejoin, without holding the lost time against you.
  • A natural-sounding voice. Add your own voice key and the whole ride is spoken in a premium voice.
  • Your rides are kept. Stats, highlights and the debrief are saved for every ride, to look back on whenever you like.
  • Pick your coach's personality, from gentle and zero-pressure to dry old road-racing wisdom.
  • Opening routes from other apps such as Safari and Files now works properly.
Version 1.0

First ride

  • RideCoach arrives on the App Store. Load a route, put your phone in your pocket, and hear every climb, crest and descent before you reach it.
  • Pacing against a time you choose, reminders to eat and drink, heart-rate zones from a Bluetooth strap, and a heads-up if you leave the route.
  • Choose how chatty the coach is, and try any route from the sofa with a speeded-up practice ride.